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  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... , without the routine of classes and classmates and well-defined goals ... 's no way around it. After a couple years of getting comfortable MIT gives

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... remembered I hadn't eaten all day. You know that sense of entitlement that we ... in its place is a sense of accomplishment. Every year understanding a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me with an idea for a ... college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Magazine, Wikipedia, and NPR's This American Life. Lots of MIT students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many ... on the waitlist to about 500 people, and many of those people accepted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story short, Marilee Jones, our Dean of Admissions, misrepresented her ... say. First, as many of you know, Marilee has built her career around

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  whether or not to come to MIT when really I kind of just want to eat liquid nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  concert. There was some tie-in with Verizon's release of a newer, condensed version of the Yellow Pages, but I didn't really follow. Jewel did ... , because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily true of all MIT students, but are certainly not true of people anywhere else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  . Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of backend stuff with the web site that was long overdue. Lots of it you can ... around campus and add a variety of guest authors to our blogging program to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities Period, is a special four-week mini-term full of interesting, fun and ... Washington, DC and Middle Eastern Belly Dancing. One of IAP's most exciting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm ... minutes. I need one of these. 8:05 - 8:17 AM: Shower. 8:18 - 8:27 AM ... :28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are ... -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  First of all, a big thank you to everyone who replied to my request ... second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in ... to show the typical setup, furniture, and layout of a mix of rooms

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... , I was having a lovely dinner of weinerschnitzel (no, really) this ... talking about the leader of the Catholic religion and not a can of beer. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact that many of us actually do significant extracurricular stuff. Two things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for ... portrait of my UROP as a young man, but I got so involved writing the stream-of ... almost died in Boston traffic. Note the lack of a shoe on Kim '09. Kim is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006